Conversations About Collaboration

Forest Key joins me. He is the founder and CEO of Voodle. We talk about stories, Slack, Clubhouse, Zoom, e-mail, asynchronous communication, and personalized videos.

Michael Peachey joins me. He is the VP of User Experience at RingCentral. We discuss collaboration personas, Ready Player One, maker time vs. manager time, and unified communications.

Chris Fenning is my guest today. We talk about communication styles, types, the English neo-prog band Marillion, and his award-winning book The First Minute: How to Start Conversations That Get Results.

Erin Grau joins me. She's the co-founder and COO of Charter, a company that seeks to transform work. We talk about parental leave, equity, Jerry Maguire, and the massive opportunity for organizations to reimagine work.

Rajiv Ayyangar is my guest this week. He's the CEO of Tandem—the virtual office for distributed teams. We talk about hybrid work, Yahoo! (yes, Yahoo!), productivity, presence, Spotify, Britney Spears, and debugging people.

Chris Good joins me. He's the Creative Director at One Workplace.We talk about reimagining the office, going to work to get away from home, and the massive opportunity for companies to differentiate themselves via design.

Brad Stone is a Senior Executive Editor at Bloomberg News. He joins me this week to talk about his excellent book Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire. We talk about automation, HQ2, Prime Studios, fake reviews, Seinfeld, and the tension between creativity and analytics at the world's largest e-tailer.

Pim de Morree joins me. He's the co-founder of Corporate Rebels and co-author of Corporate Rebels: Make work more fun. We talk about self-management, employee trust, Spotify, hybrid work, e-commerce, and the world coming around to his line of thinking.

Larry English joins me. He's the president of Centric Consulting and the author of Office Optional: How to Build a Connected Culture with Virtual Teams. We talk about trust, teams, culture, change management, and hybrid work.